Thoschian

Thoschian [θoʃˑɪən] is the main language of westernmost Herooku. Created for the fantasy world of Grundet by juhhmi.

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m m			n n		nj ɲ	ng ŋ
Plosive	p b p b			t d t d		tj dj c ɟ	k g k g	q q	' ʔ
Fricative		f v f v	th dh θ ð	s z s z	sch zj ʃ ʒ	h j ç ʝ	ch x	hq χ	h h
Trill				r r				rq ʀ
Lateral app.				l l

• Fricatives: /h/ appears with back vowels and /ç/ with front vowels.
• Word final voiced consonants are reduced into voiceless unless followed by a word beginning with another voiced consonant: lag tesch /lak teʃ/ vs. lag durni /lag durni/

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close		ɨ	u
Near-Close	ɪ		ʊ
Close-Mid	ø		o
Mid	e	ə
Open-mid			ʌ ɔ
Near-open		ɐ
Open	a		ɑ

Orthography

• Written with or without the c: kch [kx], sch [ʃ]
• no [ø]